There IS a recipe that involves mixing various Tamiya colors, but I go with a standard "sand" base, with Tammiya Sky and German Gray as the other colors.Since it was used in the intense climate of North Africa, it fades quickly, so I then lightly drybrush the whole mess with more sand.

It looks blue to me, but there are lots of reasons it may not be what it appears. 1) The colors as they appear on your screen may vary from the original vehicle in the photograph.2) It may have been painted after the war and not reflect what was actually done in the field.3) The actual colors may have faded in the field, so the paint may not have been blue when applied, but became blue through fading.

I have spent many happy hours loafing around 'Golden Miller' and that blue was actually blue, not an effect of the screen or film. Still is for all I know!

On high days and holidays some old boys of the 8th Army used to meet up around it and give lectures and answer questions etc. None of them ever said the scheme was inaccurate, but them again maybe they were just too damn polite, bless 'em all .

Remember that most of the exhibits at Bovington were put back together and painted by various disparate groups of restorers over many years, without any central oversight by the museum itself in terms of colour-scheme accuracy. Accuracy in terms of colours and markings therefore varies from the excellent to the dire. They are steadily repainting exhibits to make them more accurate.

This lack of accuracy runs deep in museums throughout the world. Look at the travesty that is Aberdeen Proving Grounds Museum in Maryland, USA. For decades the vehicles were all painted with some sort of whitewash. The Imperial War Museum has a Beautiful Mark V Male tank painted green when it should be khaki-brown. And the list goes on and on.

The tank (mark VI Light) is useless so it might as well be decorative.

Actually mine look very pretty in the slate, silver grey and portland stone hues I mentioned, although I agree they are next to useless on the table. And the "correct" scheme (i.e. non -blue, per Mike Starmer) looks even better on Matildas, a fact whoever took offence at my previous post will remain totally unaware of.